Local Arts

The blues is about life - stories celebrating the good and conquering the bad - handed down from one generation to the next.

The annual Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival is fast approaching, and yes it looks like another fabulous year.

Twelve young Sunshine Coast classical music students were recently recognized by the Coast Recital Society (CRS) at the society's annual general meeting at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

Those who attended the Coast Symphony Orchestra's fine Going for Baroque concert last Friday evening (May 28) in Sechelt, received a few good lessons in this much-loved style of music from the orchestra's artistic director Edette Gagné.

International jazz collective Tunnel Six plays the Gibsons Landing Jazz Festival kick-off concert this Saturday, May 29, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.

To blues fans and music lovers everywhere - mark your calendar now so you don't miss the seventh annual Pender Harbour Blues Festival June 4 to 6.

The 38th annual MusicFest Canada, a national week of competition, set itself an ambitious target - to inspire young musicians. The event brings together more than 10,000 of Canada's finest musical youth who perform for recognition.

The Coast Symphony Orchestra is Going for Baroque this weekend. A concert of baroque music will be presented tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. at the Sechelt Indian Band Hall and on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Pender Harbour Community Hall.

In January, 1999, Nils Von Hahn sat on the back deck of the Gumboot Café in Roberts Creek sipping a hot drink made by the iconic Juice Lady, Erica Snowlake, who Von Hahn calls the Queen of the Elphinstone Faerie Tribe.

The successful Sunshine Coast Festival of the Performing Arts wrapped up last weekend with the well-attended festival highlights concert at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.